pila f basin (large, of stone etc.); font; (galvanic) cell.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Babbitt was relieved to be let off so easily, but Gunch went on: “George, I don't know what's come over you; none of us do; and we've talked a lot about you.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

“They appear to be lists of Stock Exchange securities.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Immediately afterwards I looked at M. du Maine, who appeared, to be well content at being let off so easily, and who, my neighbours said to me, appeared much troubled at my commencement.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

But late on Saturday evening came a letter addressed in the well-known hand.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

My father was very glad to be let off so easily.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

I did not pass through the lane which led direct to Abbots' House (for that old building stood solitary amidst its grounds a little apart from the spacious platform on which the society of the Hill was concentrated), but up the broad causeway, with vistaed gaslamps; the gayer shops still-unclosed, the tide of busy life only slowly ebbing from the still-animated street, on to a square, in which the four main thoroughfares of the city converged, and which formed the boundary of Low Town.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In this duchy of mine it was different; you ran into a law on every corner, in every park, in every public building: little oblong signs, enameled, which told you that you could not do something or other—"Forbidden!"
— from The Princess Elopes by Harold MacGrath

Merchants and missionaries alike travelled by land or sea eastward to Cathay.
— from Medieval People by Eileen Power

163 The boys were very glad to be let off so easily.
— from The Brownie Scouts and Their Tree House by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt